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Sprint’s 2005 merger with Nextel will likely go down as the textbook example for how telecom mergers can go heinously wrong. The major reason? Sprint’s inability to effectively integrate Nextel’s iDEN network and services into its own CDMA-based network and services. The iDEN network cost Sprint dearly, as the...

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Kodak, once a symbol of technological innovation, is lately looking more like a textbook example of a disrupted company. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, after years of struggling to keep up in a landscape dominated by digital cameras, smartphones and photo-sharing apps. One of...

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Plus Google Music losing users?, Microsoft's clumsy lobbying, good commenting style, see yourself being tracked and moreA quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamAndroid 'Key Lime Pie' comes after Jelly Bean >> The VergeWe've been tipped by a reliable source today...

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Despite many hits in the genre, social gaming is a relatively risky business. A company can have a hit one day and then the next day it’s suddenly worth nothing as bored users flee en masse. OMGPOP’s Draw Something is a textbook example of how a social game rose to...

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Silk, a Web app that lets users collect, sort and consume information in a structured way, is opening up to the world after attracting 10,000 users to its private beta. Note: Silk is not to be confused with Amazon’s Silk, which is a mobile Web browser. The Amsterdam startup behind...

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One of the most worrisome developments in the media landscape over the last two decades has been conglomeration—which coincides quite naturally with additional concerns about profit-driven bias in publishing, both online and off. At the heart of these concerns sits a simple concept: conflict of interest. When a writer,...

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To say that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s tenure at the company has been controversial would be an understatement. His role in taking the company from its homegrown mobile software to Microsoft’s Windows Phone continues to cause complaint and argument to this day. The firm’s first four devices in the Lumia...

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Chris Hoofnagle has a new paper: "Internalizing Identity Theft." Basically, he shows that one of the problems is that lenders extend credit even when credit applications are sketchy. From an article on the work: Using a 2003 amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act that allows victims of ID theft...

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Derek Brown is a technology executive and analyst who blogs at One Blind Squirrel. Yesterday at the playground, Google threw a handful of sand in Apple's eye. With a subtle, yet powerful update to its Gmail for iOS app, links to YouTube, Google Maps and Chrome now go directly to...

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We've covered the story of copyright troll lawyer Evan Stone for a while now. He was one of a group of lawyers who jumped into the copyright trolling business a few years ago, figuring it was easy money to get info on people based on IP addresses, and then demand...

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dbreunig: A textbook example of what is disruptive, and what isn’t: Google Wallet installs new credit card readers at Walgreens Square sells new credit card readers at Walgreens Which could change the world? Quite right....

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Microsoft blues: Speaking of blues... "Schumpeter" of The Economist has this to say about Microsoft and Windows 8: This is why Windows 8's poor performance matters. It was an attempt to solve the innovator's dilemma by creating an operating system and a user interface for both PCs and mobiles. Mr...

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For all the money and effort poured into supercomputers, their lifespans can be brutally short. See IBM's Roadrunner as a textbook example: the 116,640-core cluster was smashing records just five years ago, and yet it's already considered so behind the times that Los Alamos National Laboratory is taking it...

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Apple's Mannheim jinx has been broken: this morning, Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court announced that a Motorola Mobility lawsuit over a patent declared essential to the 3G/UMTS wireless telecommunications stsndard has been dismissed.The judge explained that the court does not hold Apple to infringe claim 9 of...

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Thought that whole Google antitrust brouhaha was over? It’s really not. The EU is now saying in the vaguest of terms that August or later is “a possible deadline.” “We can reach an agreement after the summer break. We can envisage this as a possible deadline,” European Commission head of...

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A malware scare on a mobile device? Must be Android, right? In this case, that’s only half correct. A new malicious app has been detected by Kaspersky Labs, and it affects both Android and Apple’s carefully guarded iOS platform. Does this indicate some previously unknown vulnerability in both platforms? Not...

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Yesterday, we wrote about Viacom's reactionary strategy of holding its fans hostage by shutting down online streams of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report after DirecTV advised its customers (who just lost access to Viacom shows) to watch them online. It was a childish move that punished a whole...

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It's almost inevitable as breathing: a tech powerhouse acquires a clever yet small startup solely for its talent or technology, and lets any leftover services wither away. Posterous' decision to shut down following its 2012 acquisition by Twitter is very nearly a textbook example. The 4-year-old firm will close...

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In 2010, lawyer Evan Stone filed a suit on behalf of Mick Haig Productions against 670 as-yet unknown individuals the company believed had been unlawfully sharing their film “Der Gute Onkel” using BitTorrent. However, events took a turn for the strange. Soon both EFF and Public Citizen, who had been...

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Founder Andrew Mason accepts blame for financial failings and leaves with colourful goodbye to staffWhen a 32-year-old dotcom multimillionaire known for his "goofball" approach to business is fired, the chances are he is not going to slip out the back door, hanging his head in shame. And so it was...

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It’s easy to root for Kickstarter. The company has made it possible to bring new, innovative products to market and finance projects that would never get off the ground before the popularization of crowdfunding. It’s created an entirely new class of entrepreneur, and the way it turns the investment business...

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Sony doesn't always break ground on new technology, but it tends to go big when it does. The company's new installation-grade Laser Light Source Projector (similar to the VPL-FH36 you see here) serves as a textbook example. While it's far from the world's first laser projector, it's reportedly the...

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The literary world gasped on Thursday when Amazon announced it had acquired Goodreads, a popular social networks that lets book lovers connect and share reviews with one another. The deal gives Amazon control of an influential literary taste-maker and provides it with access to wealth of new book data —...